New Essays on Tolstoy

Klappentext This collection of essays focuses on Tolstoy's writing, thinking and translation problems to commemorate his 150th year of his birth. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays was first published in 1978 for the 150th anniversary of Tolstoy's birth. Some of the topics discussed are the problems of translating Tolstoy into English! fresh approaches to both major fiction and later works and reassessment of Tolstoy as a thinker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors; Editor's preface; Introduction R. F. Christian; Part I: 1. On translating Tolstoy Henry Gifford; 2. War over War and Peace: Prince Andrey Bolkonsky and critical literature of the 1860s and early 1870s A. V. Knowles; 3. A man speaking to men: the narratives of War and Peace W. Gareth Jones; 4. Problems of communication in Anna Karenina Malcolm V. Jones; 5. Hadji Murat: the power of understatement A. D. P. Briggs; Part II: 6. The body and pressure of time E. Lampert; 7. Tolstoy and religion E. B. Greenwood; 8. Tolstoy's philosophy of history F. F. Seeley; 9. The Purleigh Colony: Tolstoyan togetherness in the late 1890s M. J. de K. Holman; Tolstoy studies in Great Britain: a bibliographical survey Garth M. Terry; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Jones
• Assisted by: Malcolm Jones (Editor), Jones Malcolm (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521169219
• ISBN: 978-0-521-16921-9
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Russia, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form